Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3489

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Trench 7 (C) (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #118.

Dating: Ottoman period

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3489.

Dimensions (in cm): 12.5 x 6.

Weave: Warp-faced tabby, extended (with double wefts).

Decoration: Undecorated.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- cream (undyed)
- 10 threads/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- cream (undyed)
- 2 picks (double thread)/cm

Other features: Simple selvedge type C1 (not reinforced). Edge with unlooped warps twisted into fringes type B1.

Documentation: Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.